Ut honors vs Mich

brantly
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:02:46 +0000

It’s not as if someone planning on shooting up a school is going to go through the trouble of obtaining a concealed carry license anyway. Your bags aren’t ever checked as you’re walking onto campus. Someone could easily carry a gun onto practically every campus in the country without detection.

The point is that it makes it harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.

The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) has stated that “There is…a real concern that campus police officers responding to a situation involving an active shooter may not be able to distinguish between the shooter and others with firearms at colleges that allow guns on their premises.”

This is an interesting read too. “Texans Prepare for Concealed Guns on Campuses”
http://www.newsweek.com/campus-carry-texas-implementation-416644
From the article:

At the University of Texas at Austin, faculty members worry that guns in classrooms could curb free speech. One professor emeritus there reportedly said he would resign rather than teach with guns in his classroom.

“This is an invasion of higher education and we don’t like it,” says Max Snodderly, a neuroscience professor at UT-Austin and a member of the group Gun Free UT, which faculty members founded in August. “I don’t want guns in my classroom, I don’t want guns in my office, I don’t want guns in the student residences.”

Snodderly adds, “People who teach in controversial subjects are very worried about this, that somebody could get angry and then we’ve got a real problem…. If people know guns are around, it’s going to chill free speech. It’s going to infringe on academic freedom.”

In any case, regarding the choice that the OP’s daughter has to make, this might influence the decision of a student from the metro New York area.